India’s GSAT-6A military communications satellite has unexpectedly gone silent after conducting a major engine burn on Saturday, indicating a potentially serious onboard anomaly had occurred less than two days after the craft’s successful launch atop a GSLV rocket.

India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle powered away from the country’s Eastern Shore on Thursday, successfully placing the GSAT-6A advanced S-Band communications satellite into orbit and introducing an upgraded engine as the first of a number of improvements coming up on India’s rockets in the coming years.

India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle blasted off from the country’s Eastern Shore at 11:26:00 UTC on March 29, 2018 and soared to its fifth consecutive success in a row after returning to flight in 2014.

India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle blasted off from the country’s Eastern Shore at 11:26:00 UTC on March 29, 2018 and soared to its fifth consecutive success in a row after returning to flight in 2014.

India is gearing up for the country’s second space launch of the year, targeting Thursday to send a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle toward a high-energy orbital destination with the GSAT-6A government- and military-use communications satellite.

The third stage of an Indian Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mk. II rocket re-entered the atmosphere on March 1, 2018 after spending over two and a half years spiraling down from a Geostationary Transfer Orbit.

India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle lifted off from the First Launch Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Center at 3:59 UTC on January 12, 2018 with an assortment of 31 satellites from seven different countries.

India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle opened the country’s space flight year 2018 on Friday with an impressive Return-To-Flight mission lifting into orbit an assortment of 31 satellites of vastly different shapes and sizes for operators in seven different countries.

India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle lifted off from the First Launch Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Center at 3:59 UTC on January 12, 2018 with an assortment of 31 satellites from seven different countries.

India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle is targeting liftoff on Friday on the rocket’s return to flight mission after a 2017 failure, aiming to lift into orbit a total of 31 satellites ranging from a large Indian Earth Observation satellite to various small satellites and CubeSats for remote sensing and technology demonstrations.

The third stage of an Indian Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mk. II rocket re-entered the atmosphere on October 10, 2017 after spending just over five months spiraling down from a Geostationary Transfer Orbit.

A streak of 36 successful launches over a period of 18 years ended on Thursday when India’s PSLV rocket suffered an in-flight failure that left its payload – a replacement satellite for the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System – in a lower- than-planned orbit and possibly trapped underneath the rocket’s payload fairing.